Elizabeth Taylor - Complete Short Stories

Guardian“Her bracing honesty is truly funny...” Yet Taylor is far too brave to use alcohol to provide drama, or to explain her more extreme characters. Her world, like ours, is full of perfectly sober monsters, egotists whose egoes we boost...

Financial Times“Creating a world so fully realised...” Reading this enormous volume it seems there is nothing Taylor cannot do. She is as comfortable in a milieu of near-hysterical jubilation as she is in a half-lit, introspective setting. She is as profound in her understanding of children...

The Telegraph“Taylor beautifully constructs awkward social scenes...” Through the early stories - which can seem melodramatic and caricatured, progressively finessed as Taylor pares down - we see prototypes of characters fleshed out in the novels...